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There are a lot of alternatives out there. What service or services are you stuck on?
For me, MitID in Denmark. 100% required for society and life here, requires Google Play Services now :(
I tried e/os on my Fairphone for a bit. I think I could make it all work okay enough besides that. I should write people at the government or something I guess?
Also, only officially browser for MitID is fucking Chrome. Always works with Firefox or libreWolf, though. However, I have contacted MitID two times about issues. They are always referring that I should look at the help page supported OS/browser blah blah. They don't care about the part of the population that doesn't use Chrome. Ironic that the same government now screams and shouts about how we have become too reliant on US big tech... Idiotic tech noob politicians.
Don't use the app then? I have a key thing which works quite well. https://www.mitid.dk/en-gb/get-started-with-mitid/how-to-use-mitid/mitid-code-display/
TIL this exists. Super cool.
Hvad koster det?
Jeg tror det er gratis
Edit:
Jeg var lige inde og kigge på MitID hjemmesiden. De skriver selv at der ikke var noget problem uden play integrity. Men at de implementerede det alligevel:
https://www.mitid.dk/en-gb/about-mitid/news/mitid-gets-an-extra-anti-fraud-mechanism/
Yes! Being active politically is always important.
Be civil and polite at first, you want these people on your side after all. But don't be afraid to hold back if they respond with bullshit either. They are your representative, make them represent you and hold them to account if required.
Encouraging friends and family to write is usually a good idea too.
Not being politically engaged, I feel, is one of the main reasons for the downfall of democracy throughout the globe. Too many people think ticking a box every 4-5 years is all they need to do.
A good bit harder since I'm not a native Dane. In some more years when I'm a full fledged citizen I can start in earnest, but I'll ask now at least
I don't know myself, but Graphene OS (on Google Pixel phones) has a pretty impressive sandbox layer for the play store and the apps it installs. It might be worth looking into if you're not aware of it currently. (But if you're aware of the Fairphone, I'm guessing you probably know about Graphene).
graphene is only for pixels i believe.
I do, but as far as I was aware my Fairphone can't run Graphene? I would love to keep using my Fairphone over buying Google's hardware at this point
You are correct, Graphene only runs on Pixel phones. I know there's a few open mobile OS options out there but I've not spent any time researching them. There is a very good chance if you absolutely need an identification, then you can't get away from Android. Hopefully someone else sees your comment and has an answer.
There's a post about this on the Danish community here every few months. Afaik no one has any proper progress on it other than carrying a burner device or something
I’ve never heard of that, so I looked it up. There definitely appear to be non-Google alternatives.
What? You can't use an alternative app. It's government issued identification and required for life here.
I (and as far as I can tell, all others) can't get it to work outside of android
https://international.kk.dk/live/online-self-services/mitid/mitid.
Does not appear to “require” Android.
Fascinating. I knew about the key fob but not the little pedometer looking thing.
I wonder how it actually works, since a lot of it is integrated into apps and I don't see a spot to instead type a code. I'll have to play with it